Skip to main content
Brooklyn Castle

Up Next

StoryCorps Shorts: Driven

StoryCorps Shorts: Driven

Season 30 Episode 7
2:48
POV Shorts: Making Memories

POV Shorts: Making Memories

Season 32 Episode 203
24:13
POV Shorts: Drawing on Experience

POV Shorts: Drawing on Experience

Season 32 Episode 204
25:01
POV Shorts: Post-Colonial Queer

POV Shorts: Post-Colonial Queer

Season 32 Episode 206
25:01
The Mole Agent

The Mole Agent

Season 33 Episode 13
1:22:36
Through The Night

Through The Night

Season 33 Episode 14
1:14:43
POV Shorts: Where I'm From

POV Shorts: Where I'm From

Season 34 Episode 401
53:47
POV Shorts: Dreaming Life

POV Shorts: Dreaming Life

Season 34 Episode 402
25:05
POV Shorts: Familial Healing

POV Shorts: Familial Healing

Season 34 Episode 403
24:51
POV Shorts: On Caregiving and Grace

POV Shorts: On Caregiving and Grace

Season 34 Episode 404
24:50
POV Shorts: Becoming Myself

POV Shorts: Becoming Myself

Season 34 Episode 405
23:57
POV Shorts: Le Frère

POV Shorts: Le Frère

Season 34 Episode 406
24:57
Back to Show
POV

Brooklyn Castle

Season 26 Episode 12

This public-school powerhouse in junior high chess competitions has won more than 30 national championships, the most of any school in the country. Its squad boasts so many strong players that the late Albert Einstein, would rank fourth if he were on the team. Most astoundingly, I.S. 318 is a Brooklyn school that serves mostly minority students from families living below the poverty line.

Watch Preview
Support Provided By
Season
POV Shorts: Until He's Back
40:19
Ahmed must find a way to get his son’s remains back home to Morocco so he can say goodbye.
POV Shorts
21:09
Kids learn to swim - and, in their lessons, we discover profound wisdom for all.
POV Shorts: Recorded Memory
24:35
Two stories of quilted heirlooms and generational nostalgia.
POV Shorts: In Her Lane
24:50
Two stories of women who trailblaze and persist.
POV Shorts: Jardines
25:05
A portrait of the experiences unique to displaced queer people fleeing violence at home.
POV Shorts
25:05
Families traverse tradition and memory in marking new phases of life.
Feature Films
52:52
A debt-laden grad turns Tokyo Uber Eats biker, confronting the gig economy's harsh truths.
Feature Films
Unlock with PBS Passport
1:23:02
Inuit activist Aaju Peter embarks on a personal journey for Indigenous people's rights.
In the Rearview
Unlock with PBS Passport
1:22:09
An intimate observation of the war in Ukraine unfolds inside of a volunteer aid van.
Feature Films
Unlock with PBS Passport
1:22:55
Revolutionary at 21. Lawmaker at 23. Most Wanted at 26. Nathan Law's fight for freedom.
Feature Films
Unlock with PBS Passport
1:22:53
A deaf Kurdish boy's transformative journey to communicate through learning sign language.
Feature Films
Unlock with PBS Passport
1:10:47
Exploring the dynamic nexus of humans, animals, and science in a post-pandemic world.
Active loading indicator